An intimate and lyrical celebration of great love, great art, and the sacrifices we make for both

For fifty years, Abe and Jane have been coming to Central Park, as starry-eyed young lovers, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as artists watching their careers take flight.They came alone when they needed to get away from each other, and together when they had something important to discuss. The Park has been their witness forhalf a century of love. Until now.

Jane is dying, and Abe is recounting their life together as a way of keeping them going: the parts they knewtheir courtship and early marriage, their blossoming creative livesand the parts they didnt always want to knowthe determined young student of Abes looking for a love story of her own, and their son, Max, who believes his mother chose art over parenthood and who has avoided love and intimacy at all costs. Told in various points of view, even in conversation with Central Park itself, these voicesweave in and out to paint a portrait as complicated and essential as love itself.

An homage to New York City, to romance, and even to loss, This Is a Love Story tenderly and suspensefully captures deep truths about life and marriage in radiant prose. It is about love that endures despite what life throws at us, or perhaps even because of it.